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Met officers don't know Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist group | LBC
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8:05Now Playing"Jaw-dropping" footage shows that Met Police officers working at a recent London march were unaware that Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist group.
The officers, who were policing a march in central London last month, told a concerned bystander who informed them that Hezbollah were a banned group that "your opinion is your opinion".
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said the video was "terrifying". The Met said that officers had been briefed on the status of Hezbollah and Hamas, but admitted the video showed more needs to be done.
The incident took place on September 28, a day after the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese group, who are at war with Israel.
Campaigners were protesting against the war, a spokesperson for the Met has since said. But at the time, officers at the scene told the bystander that the event was a vigil for the leader of Hezbollah. Activists at at least one other London march have held up placards defending Nasrallah and Hezbollah.
Nick Ferrari is joined by ex-National Counter Terrorism Co-ordinator, Nick Aldworth, who says that 'there's no space for anyone to be wrong in policing at the moment', but 'everyone has bad days'.
However, anti-Semitism expert Stephen Silverman emphasises how 'shocking', this is, adding: 'I'm afraid the gentleman you were speaking to just now massively underplayed the seriousness of what happened.'
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